donutdns VS sliver

https://github.com/shoenig/donutdns

I wanted a no-nonsense single-binary alternative to pi-hole (based on CoreDNS).

Been using this as my home DNS server for a year now without issue. Recently added support for reading a directory of block lists, so now it's easy to keep things organized in blocking sites with huge numbers of domains.

IDK if you are too young to remember the fallout from Snowden, but the Kremlin threw out entire rooms computers and for a time used actual typewriters. Because those computers had, more or less, twingate connectors on them. That's a bit of a rich example, but you're essentially installing what sliver calls an implant, what meterpreter calls a payload, and what Cobalt Strike calls a beacon. It's cool if you want to, but there's no need when you can just open a port with the same technology a Fortune 50 does.

What they said. Also, if you want a free alternative to cobalt: https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver

Sliver is neat, https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver

Armitage is precursor to CS but they diverged a long time ago. I ran up the armitage that comes with Kali these days, it has issues and bugs that would prevent it being useful. Sliver is probably the most usable FOSS C2. https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver

I’m a huge fan of Sliver, super powerful and well written/maintained with a lot of care and attention paid to tradecraft. I’m a big fan of the features like the built-in support for DNS canaries to detect blue team analysis. Only downside is that the documentation may be a little lacking.

- https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver/wiki/DNS-C2

For the additional more advanced steps I used sliver as a c2. Sliver is an excellent tool for the job and unlike some other tools, it's FOSS! You can easily replace sliver with your tool of choice, however.